[CMake] How to properly write a Module/<Package>Config.cmake file

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.11.08 18:23:09, Ioan Calin Borcoman wrote:
> Why not provide a pkg-config .pc file that can be used by your users?
> 
> The syntax of .pc files is quite simple and your user can use
> pkg_check_module once the .pc is installed (or even use some some
> other build system that knows how to handle pkg-config, like
> autotools).

Because pkg-config uses compiler switches in its files, so you always have
to remove those, then compute absolute paths to the library files. And you
need to get the order of the -L's right too. Thats a lot work, if all of
that can be skipped with a proper FooConfig.cmake.

Andreas

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